PS and LCD - Cant manage a good color Red

#660000 is a good pure dark red.
#5A1010 slightly darker/less saturated version of 660000

#5F0022 has a tiny bit more pink in it (more of a wine colour)
#4F0724 slightly darker/less saturated version
#680428 slightly lighter/more saturated

I think you'll want one of the first two, depending on whether you want more red or more wine.

That's disturbing that your monitor can't display colours properly. Have you tried contacting the manufacturer?

Hi megan.

thanks for the reply. I have not tried to contact the manufacture, it is 4+ years old and was the cheapest LCD monitor I could find - LOL
I heard that LCD monitors have problems with true black since they display light at every pixel, even black. But mine is pretty much crap. The funny thing is the intensity of the colors is different between my home lcd and my work lcd. I am not sure what the rest of the world is seeing =/
I will try those shades and see how they show up. Thanks again for your wonderful advice.

Got a good shade of gold you can recommend as well? Gold and Maroon (Buddhist colors) will be the theme for my personal travels site.

Thanks,
Schlange

Quote: looks different on my work LCD and my friends PCs.

I'll defer to Megans better judgement on the colours, just thought I'd mention that I've had exactly the same problem with LCD and CRT monitors. Does everything look better on your CRT Vs everything else? Or is the problem that everything looks worse on yours Vs everything else?

#CAA200 (gold) with #66002C (maroon/wine) looks good to me. Good to have a little more blue tones to the red because otherwise it looks too brown next to the gold.

(You will want to check this on a number of machines - gold/yellow can be hard to get right)

Thanks Megan. I will give it a try tonight

JeevesBond the home lcd looks worse than the work lcd. i do not have a crt or know anyone who does really. I will have to try from an internet cafe as well to make sure I know what the rest of the world is actually seeing

Thanks again megan. The gold can be hard and I guess that might have been the problem with the reds before. In PS they look good but on the site with yellow next to them they looked brownish. Ill try the maroon/wine 66002C you suggested and see how that goes.

Cheers

Hi Megan

Just an update on what i tried. I went with your suggestion for the red with a touch of blue: 66002c

For the Gold I went with more yellow: f9de1e

When I tried the codes suggested it looked very orange and too dark (on my monitor) sitting next to the wine color

Could you upload what youv'e got and let me take a look? Sounds like your monitor can't be trusted, unfortunately I can adjust from there then. I think the monitors I have here is pretty reliable for colour - and I have two to check! (both CRT though)

I can help here too anyways I have to share this: When I choose colors for sites I usually forget to turn off my digital vibrance toggle of my Video Card, So colors and pictures tend to look better on my monitors (I also turn on digital vibrance on my coders PC as well as every PC I have), Then when I look at other PC's which their owner had never activated and never knew there was a digital vibrance control for their VC my color combos still looks ok but not what was intended, so any thoughts about this or shall we make a survey??

Never knew about digital vibrance. where do you set this feature at Demonhale? I have to give it a try. I wonder if it will make a difference.

are you using a PC? on your desktop, right-click on a blank space and go to properties, once a child window opens up go to settings tab, click advanced, goe to the name of your video card tab, then look for it there under the color settings (Im using a Geforce Card here)... (ATI has its own too)

I don't have exactly that but I do have a color management tab that lets you choose from a number of preset profiles or define your own. That could do something too.

Have you calibated your monitor using the Adobe Gamma utility in the control panel?

Here is a site I bookmarked, I like using it to gauge the viewing angle on my monitor to match my desktop system:

http://www.photofriday.com/calibrate.php

-Greg